Cloud Engineer
The Exploration Company13 hours ago
Bordeaux, FranceMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, operate, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified environments, including compute, networking, storage, managed databases, and Kubernetes.
- Define consistent identity, networking, secrets-management, and architecture practices across AWS and sovereign cloud environments.
- Build and maintain reproducible infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools and support version-controlled workflows.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application builds, testing, and deployments.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, networking, RBAC, and workload scheduling.
- Establish observability with metrics, logging, and alerting, and resolve infrastructure issues proactively.
- Apply security and compliance controls including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, key management, vulnerability patching, and audit evidence collection.
- Define backup, retention, and disaster recovery strategies for critical services and data.
- Partner with engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable, secure, and documented infrastructure solutions.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP across compute, networking, storage, and managed database services.
- Experience with Terraform or Terragrunt and version control workflows.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and VPNs.
- Working knowledge of containers and orchestration, ideally Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.
- Practical knowledge of IAM, secrets management, encryption, compliance frameworks, and security-first cloud operations.
- Willingness to learn and apply sovereign and high-assurance cloud security requirements.
- Fluent English; French is advantageous but not required.
- Ability to work effectively in a multilingual team.
- Preferred qualifications include aerospace, defense, mission-critical systems, multi-region or disaster recovery architecture, hybrid or multi-cloud experience, AWS certifications, and exposure to ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or similar security environments.
Benefits
- The role is on-site in France.
- Relocation assistance is provided for candidates willing to relocate.
- Visa sponsorship is available where applicable.
- The company offers an open, collaborative, fast-moving, and mission-driven work environment.
- The employer is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
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About The Exploration Company
The Exploration Company designs and builds Nyx, a reusable cargo spacecraft for in‑orbit transportation and Earth return, selling mission services to commercial and institutional customers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Gauting, Bavaria, the privately held company focuses on logistics to and from low Earth orbit and beyond. It flew a reentry technology demonstrator on Ariane 6’s inaugural launch in 2024 as a step toward operational missions.